TORTULACEJE.] 234 [MoUia. 



HAB. Dried mud at edge of pools ; rare. Fr. 10 3. 



Mere, Cheshire (Wilson 1834) ' ' Newcastle Town-moor (Robinson and Thornhill). Edge 

 of a fishpond at Hurstpierpoint (Mitten 1847) Weald of Sussex (Davies 1872) ! ! 



This little moss bears fruit richly, and carries us onward a step higher 

 from the cleistocarpous mosses to those with a dehiscent lid and peristome. 

 Like other similar species it often disappears altogether from the locality it 

 occupied. 



5. MOLLIA MICROSTOMA (Hedw.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in short dense tufts. Leaves lanceolate, crisped when 

 dry, acute, nerve excurrent, margin incurved. Caps, elliptic, contracted 

 at the mouth, closed by a perforated membrane, lid obliquely rostrate 

 (T. XXXIV, B.) 



SYN. Gymnostomum microstomum HED-W. Stirp. Cr. iii, 71, t. 30, B (1792), Sp. muse. 33 (1801). 

 HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 29 (1795). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. I, 44 (1798), Sp. Muse. I, 33 

 (1806), Mant. 15 (1819). SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 21 (1799). ROEHL. Moosg. deutsch. 79 

 (1800). ROTH Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 128 (1800). SMITH Fl. brit. iii, 1165 (1804), Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2215. P. BEAUV. Prodr. 59 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 279 (1806). WEB. MOHR 

 Bot. Tasch. 85 (1807). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 28 (1811). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 

 13, t. 7 (1818). HARTM. Skand. fl. 283 (1820). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 716 (1821). 

 FUNCK Moost. 7, t. 4 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. II, 123 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 10 (1833). 

 MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, p. ii (1836). WILS. Bry. brit. 44, t. 7 (1855). SCKIMP. Synops. 

 34 (1860). BERK. Handb. br. m. 295 (1863). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 39 (1873). 

 HOBK. Syn. br. m. 33 (1873). 



Bryum microstomum DICKS. PI. crypt. Fasc. IV, 9 (1801). 



Hymenostomum microstomum R. BROWN Trans. Linn. Soc. xii, 572 (1819). NEES HORNSCH. 



Bry. germ, i, 139, t. 12, f. 4 (1823). BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 77 (1827). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 



67 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 293 (1838). Epil. bri. ital. 607 (1869). BR. SCHIMP. Bry. 



eur. fasc. 33 36, p. 4, t. i (1846). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 123 (1848). SCHIMP. 



Synops. 2 ed. 34 (1876). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 6, t. 2 (1884). 

 Weisia microstoma C. MUELL. Synops. i, 660 (1849). Fl. danica t. 2612, fig. i. LINDB. 



De Tort. 230 (1864). MILDE Bry. siles. 44 (1869). JURATZ. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 9 



(1882). 



Simophyllum microstomum LINDB. Rev. crjt. icon. fl. dan. 74 (1871). 

 Mollia microstoma LINDB. Muse, scand. 22 (1879). 



Autoicous ; densely tufted, lurid green. Leaves lanceolate from an 

 erect base, patent, twisted and crisped when dry, comal elongato-lanc. 

 concave, the margin incurved, mucronate with the excurrent nerve ; 

 cells at base elongate hexagonal, above minute, opake. Caps, exserted 

 on a yellowish seta, oval or elliptic, equal or gibbous, olivaceous when 

 filled with spores, pale brown when empty, mouth very narrow, the 

 closed orifice finally perforated in the centre ; lid paler, more or 

 less elongated, acute obliquely rostrate, annulus simple. Male infl. 

 near the female, gemmiform. 

 HAB. On banks and barren fields, not uncommon. Fr. 3 4. 



Var. ft. obliqua (Nets Hornsch.) 



Plants shorter with a shorter seta ; caps, asymmetric, incurved, lid more 

 conical. 



SYN. Hymenostomum obliqutim NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ. 194, t. 12, f. 2. BRID. Bry. univ. 



75- 

 H. microstomum Var. (3. obliquum. Bry. eur. 



